Pinnich has gone his own way, but you make fast friends with familiar faces: Trunks, Goten, and young Goku. Before you know it, a wide range of the series' locales are combined into a towering vertical universe, and everyone from across the franchise’s history is now trying to find teammates for the upcoming brawl. Pinnich is a pretty simple-minded type: he wants to have the biggest, baddest tournament ever to determine the strongest warrior in all of the Dragon Ball universe. Your adventure begins as you and your pal Pinnich-an original character created for Fusions-find the last of the Dragon Balls, earning the right to make a wish. The bright, often surreal environments and structures from the Dragon Ball universe are beautifully rendered on 3DS, and although the ability to view the game in 3D had to be sacrificed in the process, it's not a huge loss. Once you're done, you’re immediately thrust into the colorful world of Dragon Ball. Much like those games, you start off by designing a custom character based on one of the various races from the show, picking facial features, a hairstyle, and an accompanying voice.
In some ways, Fusions feels like a companion game to the Dragon Ball Xenoverse series. Where many Dragon Ball Z games effectively showcase superpowered combat, Dragon Ball Fusions is an attempt to embrace the sillier side of Dragon Ball in gaming form-though, sadly, it falls victim to repetitive combat and dull progression systems.
Humor is an element of the Dragon Ball series that often goes overlooked in games.